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Book Power (Fall 2017)

Readers will discover the biographies and histories of those who shaped the world around them. These titles remind readers that they too can inspire and spark change no matter their age!

Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub

Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma

By: Darcy Pattison

Illustrated by:
Kitty Harvill

ISBN: 9781629440019

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies?

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies?

By: Ruby Shamir

Illustrated by:
Matt Faulkner

ISBN: 9780399547249

National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham

National Geographic Readers

By: Libby Romero

ISBN: 9781426325007

Nefertiti, The Spidernaut: The Jumping Spider who Learned to Hunt in Space

Nefertiti, The Spidernaut

By: Darcy Pattison

Illustrated by:
Valeria Tisnes

ISBN: 9781629440613

Around America to Win the Vote

Around America to Win the Vote

By: Mara Rockliff

Illustrated by:
Hadley Hooper

ISBN: 9780763678937

Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World

Radioactive!

By: Winifred Conkling

ISBN: 9781616204150

The Life and Times of Martin Luther

The Life and Times of Martin Luther

By: Meike Roth-Beck

Illustrated by:
Klaus Ensikat

ISBN: 9780802854957

Preaching to the Chickens

Preaching to the Chickens

By: Jabari Asim

Illustrated by:
E.B. Lewis

ISBN: 9780399168567

Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer

Ada’s Ideas

By: Fiona Robinson

ISBN: 9781419718724

Mama Africa!

Mama Africa!

By: Kathryn Erskine

Illustrated by:
Charly Palmer

ISBN: 9780374303013

Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells

By: Philip Dray

Illustrated by:
Stephen Alcorn

ISBN: 9781561454174

The Streak

The Streak

By: Barb Rosenstock

Illustrated by:
Terry Widener

ISBN: 9781590789926

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

Surviving the Angel of Death

By: Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri

ISBN: 9781933718576

I Am Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Am Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Brad Meltzer

Illustrated by:
Christopher Eliopoulos

ISBN: 9780525428527

The Book of Heroines

The Book of Heroines

By: Stephanie Warren Drimmer

ISBN: 9781426325571

Wisdom, The Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years

Wisdom, The Midway Albatross

By: Darcy Pattison

Illustrated by:
Kitty Harvill

ISBN: 9780979862175

Schomburg

Schomburg

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrated by:
Eric Velasquez

ISBN: 9780763680466

Newton and Me

Newton and Me

By: Lynne Mayer

Illustrated by:
Sherry Rogers

ISBN: 9781607188704

Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

By: Marissa Moss

Illustrated by:
April Chu

ISBN: 9781939547330

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

The Right Word

By: Jen Bryant

Illustrated by:
Melissa Sweet

ISBN: 9780802853851

Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America

Alexander Hamilton

By: Teri Kanefield

ISBN: 9781419725784

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

By: Bernie Sanders

ISBN: 9781250138903

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March

We’ve Got a Job

By: Cynthia Levinson

ISBN: 9781561456277

Three Years and Eight Months

Three Years and Eight Months

By: Icy Smith

Illustrated by:
Jennifer Kindert

ISBN: 9780985623784

Babe Conquers the World: The Legendary Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Conquers the World

By: Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace

ISBN: 9781590789810

Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir

I Want To Be Like Poppin’ Joe/ Yo quiero ser como Joe Palomitas

I Want To Be Like Poppin’ Joe/ Yo quiero ser como Joe Palomitas

By: Jo Meserve Mach and Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier

Illustrated by:
Mary Birdsell (Photographer)

ISBN: 9781944764456

What’s the Big Deal About Freedom?

What’s the Big Deal About Freedom?

By: Ruby Shamir

Illustrated by:
Matt Faulkner

ISBN: 9780399547287

The Book of Heroes

The Book of Heroes

By: Crispin Boyer

ISBN: 9781426325533

Martina and Chrissie

Martina and Chrissie

By: Phil Bildner

Illustrated by:
Brett Helquist

ISBN: 9780763673086

Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant

Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant

By: Songju Ma Daemicke

Illustrated by:
Christina Wald

ISBN: 9781628559033

Rumors

Rumors

By: Denys Cazet

ISBN: 9781939547323

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

A River of Words

By: Jen Bryant

Illustrated by:
Melissa Sweet

ISBN: 9780802853028

Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

Red Cloud

By: S.D Nelson

ISBN: 9781419723131

The Firefly Letters

The Firefly Letters

By: Margarita Engle

ISBN: 9781250110961

Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage

Marching with Aunt Susan

By: Claire Rudolf Murphy

Illustrated by:
Stacey Schuett

ISBN: 9781561455935

Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide

Half Spoon of Rice

By: Icy Smith

Illustrated by:
Sopaul Nhem

ISBN: 9780982167588

Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction

Dorothea’s Eyes

Dorothea’s Eyes

By: Barb Rosenstock

Illustrated by:
Gerard Dubois

ISBN: 9781629792088

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures

By: Julia Finley Mosca

Illustrated by:
Daniel Rieley

ISBN: 9781943147304

Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir

Mei Ling in China City

Mei Ling in China City

By: Icy Smith

Illustrated by:
Gayle Garner Roski

ISBN: 9780970165480

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: the Story of Dr. Patricia Bath

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes

By: Julia Finley Mosca

Illustrated by:
Daniel Rieley

ISBN: 9781943147311

Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Untamed

By: Anita Silvey; Foreward by Jane Goodall

ISBN: 9781426315183

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)

Wheels of Change

By: Sue Macy

ISBN: 9781426328558

Nonfiction, 7-12, History

Voice of Freedom

Voice of Freedom

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrated by:
Ekua Holmes

ISBN: 9780763665319

Lighter Than Air

Lighter Than Air

By: Matthew Clark Smith

Illustrated by:
Matt Tavares

ISBN: 9780763677329

Leonardo da Vinci Gets a Do-Over

Leonardo da Vinci Gets a Do-Over

By: Mark P. Friedlander

ISBN: 9780967802060

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

By: Chris Barton

Illustrated by:
Don Tate

ISBN: 9780802853790

Look to the Stars

Look to the Stars

By: Buzz Aldrin

Illustrated by:
Wendell Minor

ISBN: 9780399247217

Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls

Pathfinders

By: Tonya Bolden

ISBN: 9781419714559

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Undefeated

By: Steve Sheinkin

ISBN: 9781596439542

14 Cows for America

14 Cows for America

By: Carmen Agra Deedy, in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah

Illustrated by:
Thomas Gonzalez

ISBN: 9781561454907

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women’s Rights

By: Deborah Kops

ISBN: 9781629793238

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

She Persisted

By: Chelsea Clinton

Illustrated by:
Alexandra Boiger

ISBN: 9781524741723

The March Against Fear

The March Against Fear

By: Ann Bausum

ISBN: 9781426326653

Enormous Smallness

Enormous Smallness

By: Matthew Burgess

Illustrated by:
Kris Di Giacomo

ISBN: 9781592701711

The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra

The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra

By: Chris Raschka

Illustrated by:
Chris Raschka

ISBN: 9780763658069

The Wolves of Currumpaw

The Wolves of Currumpaw

By: William Grill

Illustrated by:
William Grill

ISBN: 9781909263833

Manjhi Moves a Mountain

Manjhi Moves a Mountain

By: Nancy Churnin

Illustrated by:
Danny Popovici

ISBN: 9781939547347

Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir

Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo

Fur, Fins, and Feathers

By: Cassandre Maxwell

ISBN: 9780802854322

Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure

Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure

By: Jennifer Thermes

ISBN: 9781419721205

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Jonah Winter

Illustrated by:
Stacy Innerst

ISBN: 9781419725593

Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s Pioneering Woman in Space

Sally Ride

By: Tam O’Shaughnessy

ISBN: 9781250129611

Miguel’s Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote

Miguel’s Brave Knight

By: Margarita Engle

Illustrated by:
Raúl Colón

ISBN: 9781561458561

Blood Brother

Blood Brother

By: Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace

ISBN: 9781629790947

I Am Jane Goodall

I Am Jane Goodall

By: Brad Meltzer

Illustrated by:
Christopher Eliopoulos

ISBN: 9780525428497

Shackles of the Deep

Shackles of the Deep

By: Michael Cottman

ISBN: 9781426326639

Burn: Michael Faraday’s Candle

Burn

By: Darcy Pattison

Illustrated by:
Peter Willis

ISBN: 9781629440453

42 Is Not Just a Number

42 Is Not Just a Number

By: Doreen Rappaport

ISBN: 9780763676247

Shackleton’s Journey

Shackleton’s Journey

By: William Grill

Illustrated by:
William Grill

ISBN: 9781909263109

Lovely

Lovely

By: Jess Hong

Illustrated by:
Jess Hong

ISBN: 9781939547378

Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank

Eva’s Story

By: Eva Schloss

ISBN: 9780802864956

Danza!: Amalia Hernandez and El Ballet Folklorico De Mexico

Danza!

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

ISBN: 9781419725326

Bravo!

Bravo!

By: Margarita Engle

Illustrated by:
Rafael Lopez

ISBN: 9780805098761

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

Poet

By: Don Tate

Illustrated by:
Don Tate

ISBN: 9781561458257

Dangerous Jane

Dangerous Jane

By: Suzanne Slade

Illustrated by:
Alice Ratterree

ISBN: 9781561459131

The Music in George’s Head

The Music in George’s Head

By: Suzanne Slade

Illustrated by:
Stacy Innerst

ISBN: 9781629790992